The Cabinet: Containing: A Collection of Curious Papers

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W. Durham, 1754 - Ireland - 86 pages
 

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Page 51 - ... at the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, from the day of , in the year of our Lord (6) sha'll have been levied.
Page 52 - by Parliament." We moft humbly pray, that it may be enacted, AND be it enacted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, that...
Page 12 - Moft Gracious Sovereign, We your Majefty's moft Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Commons of...
Page 39 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, " I have ordered the proper officers to lay before you the national accounts, and...
Page 52 - your Majefty, ever attentive to the eafe and happinefs " of your faithful fubjects, has been gracioufly pleafed to " fignify that you would confent, and...
Page 5 - L t, the Conduct of thofe in his Confidence, and the idle Stories that were artfully propagated, caufed fuch a Sufpicion in regard to the Manner in which your M y's moft loyal Subjects would be reprefented upon your M y's happy Arrival in England, as obliged the H — e of C s, at the End of the laft...
Page 3 - Surveyor-General was one of your M — y's Servants) they fubmitted the remainder of his Punifhment to your M y's royal Pleafure for mifemploying the publick Money, and for executing many of the Barracks in fo bad a Manner, as to endanger the Health of your M y's Troops, as is mentioned in the i8th Refolution of that Committee ; and many of thofe Barracks, then built, rebuilt, and repaired, are now in fuch a Condition, that the Barrack-Board hath advertifed for Workmen to propofe for the repairing...
Page 17 - Facts fo ftrangely ftated, or with regard to my Lord P e, or Lord G — e S e. It was fufficient for his M y to declare the Confidence he is pleafed to repofe in me, the Support he will give his Reprefentative, and that he leaves me the Judge who beft deferves my Confidence, and through what Channel his Favours are to be difperfed. I hope, at leaft, it will have this good Effeft, that the SERVANTS OF THE CROWN, and OTHER MEMBERS OF THE...
Page 3 - Workmen to propofe for the repairing them, notwithftanding the Refolution of the H — e of C s, That Mr. Nevill, at that time Surveyor-General, mould, at his own Expence, be obliged to procure the feveral Perfons he had contracted with to finifh the fame, fo as to make them fit and convenient for your M y's Troops.
Page 15 - Conduft of t'5) the Lord L— — t, and of thofe in whom his Grace, for the better carrying on of his M y's Affairs, places a Confidence : And all this is • reprefented as the Sentiments of a great Majority of the H — e of C s of Ireland ; and of many others of the moft zealous of the K — g's ProteCtant Subjects there.

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